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WHAT WE WORE

I'm excited about the upcoming What we wore book and you probably should be too. This picture reminds me of visiting a cousin's bedroom and asking, sincerely, why he had a poster of a naked girl on the ceiling above his bed.

(Special mention to that Danny Dyer bedroom scene in Human Traffic)

WINTER PARTIES

For the last month, with very few exceptions, Elizabeth has gone to bed not merely sozzled or tipsy but stoned. And I mean stoned: unfocused, unable to walk straight, talking in a slow, meaningless baby voice like a demented child. The boredom, unless I'm drunk, too, of being in the presence of somebody to whom you have to repeat everything twice is like a physical pain in the stomach. 

SALTY

LINDSEY AND MATTHEW

Lindsey Wixson styled by Jack Borkett, make up by Isamaya Ffrench for i-D.

Matthew is a deliverability engineer at MailChimp. He manages our delivery team, visits anti-abuse vendors, and spends a lot of time thinking about Gmail.

1407 YELLOW

Toiletpaper magazine, fertility statues and summer dressing.

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GREEN

ORANGE

Tube upholstery, Ghanaian kente and Californian agriculture.

GONE FOR A (GREY) WALK

The same ideas again and again.

A Line Made by Walking, England 1967. Richard Long
Walk Through a Line of Neon Lights, 2004-2009. Michel François

MALE NUN (GREY)

Nun nuns here.

DETAIL

Embroidery and beads on the brain, OK?

Yoruba crown and vest, embroidered Van Gogh 

PERFECT EBAY DESCRIPTION

    

   (bought them)

SHOUTY MINIBAGS

For bossy princess party girls only.

VISUALLY SIMILAR IMAGES

I want to understand the algorithms.

Google's image search feature is
endlessly fascinating - how Lindsey
Wixson's fashion anguish can
become a wholesome Californian
grin and a breaking wave becomes
a pixelated studio wall. 

AF1s

Huaraches, Free Runs, Cortez, Air Max, whatever. Nelly knows where it's really at.

EYEBROWS

HUMANITY. LOYALTY. STRENGTH.

Recently I came across the work of Tadanori Yookoo, a Japanese (duh) graphic designer best known for his posters. This one is just so fresh, the combination of Western stereotypes of Japanese culture going so far as to include Hokusai's ukiyo-e wave. Especially the facets of character stamped ACROSS in XXXXX futura bold, the font of choice of his contemporary Barbara Kruger.










Secondly, Kruger's take on Supreme ('s lawsuit) is spot on.

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LATEX

Flesh-coloured latex makes me think of Ted Bundy lampshades but the composition of these sleeves looks perfectly like an insect joint. 

eBay, Amazon and Alibaba's offerings - mostly featuring Asian girls in abbreviated bathing suits are a brilliant hybrid of sexy/bizarre/awkward e-commerce poses.  

RAP FEDORAS

This image by Charlie Engman for V Man. Defying the humorous/accurate notion that "bucket hats are essentially rap fedoras"

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MAGRITTE UPDATE

An update of René Magritte's 1928 work The Lovers. The ring really bugs me. 

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SIMPSONS LEGO

Joyfully, Lego has released an official Simpsons set. I want to know all about the creative process that led to Homer looking so high.

THE THINGS SHE'S SEEN

FAKE POLAR BEAR!

Albino black bear at Glacier National Park, Montana (date unknown) 

Too adorable.

ALL PINK ERRYTHANG

Everywhere it's getting boring. Except you panther, you're great. 

PALETTE

Chanel's incredible AW14 supermarket and a photograph of Hong Kong from Michael Wolf's Architecture of Density series.

BELATED VALENTINES

Self Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego in My Thoughts), 1943

There was no shortage of interesting men in Frida Kahlo's life - she was at school with Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, married to Diego Rivera and for a time shared her home with Leon Trotsky.

I find the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera endlessly fascinating. Rivera divorced Kahlo in 1939 after fourteen years of marriage and they remarried the next year despite Diego's affair with Frida's sister. Frida once said of Rivera 'There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.' Ouch.

Initially blogged for work.

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GIRLY SMUT

Josie blogged about my pillowcases, I was flattered so I made another one.

BABE IS LESS BUSY

There was something so good about this image but there was far too much going on. The fake tatt is on point.

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